Legal Commentary

Sen. Bill Nelson Prefers Telcos to Constituents

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

When I called Senator Bill Nelson’s office last week, the guy on the phone assured me that Nelson would vote with Senator Dodd to eliminate telco immunity from the FISA bill. [Update: I relied on that call for this post on Feb. 1.]

That turns out to be false.

Like many of his Senate colleagues, Sen. Bill Nelson sold us out to the telcos. See the full Vote on the Dodd Amendment.

I vaguely get the politics of cowardice, although you can be damn sure I won’t forget this vote (or the vote for torture, either). But I sure don’t get the politics of lying to constituents.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).